Mini Retro Electronics from Japan 

So basically how we got music from movies back in the 1980s

400 iq

This HAS to happen or I will unsubscribe (sorry techmoan i still love you :(

​@@CardboardSliver I was about to say that someone was awake seeing that comment, but I guess the both of you are. Gotta love being an early music pirate like that... nowadays when you record/rip or otherwise copy any form of copyrighted material you immediately get a letter from the lawyer of the copyright holder. I loved the old era in which people would hear some new music when they were at a friends place for a proper visit with proper talking and drinking, rather then texting via smartphones, and you would go "god that sounds great! Who are that?" "That's X-artist from X-band. I still have a clean tape laying around I think, shall I make you a copy?". Then the whole process would be started of making a copy of the tape, and before high speed dubbing that would mean a copy and normal playing speed.

I mean, I've recorded directly from RU-vid to a cassette before when my car had a cassette player in it.

Leave it to the Japanese to make high quality tat. Really cool.

I thought so as well. When it went fuzzy my first thought was to thump it. Sure made my day when he did and it cleared up.

Definitely! Though I will say seeing your comment before the video was a bit of a spoiler :)

gustavo.goretkin Um. Watch the videos first?

Well my first clue that it would be the outcome was when he mentioned the setup guide talking about a "sandstorm".

That one made me laugh...

Finding a to-scale working lava lamp to put on top of the TV would be difficult though .

A RU-vid channel known as Hanabira already did that :D

Just looked over the video again. Hanabira doesn't use these items in particular, but he does still use mini nostalgic items from Japan

Aside from being a project, that's what I thought they would be for. I could see a kid using these with their toys

Honey I shrunk the fucking house

That would make it complete.

You saved me from having to nitpick for myself, I'm perfectly content nitpicking vicariously...pshhhhhht ... and on todays news ... pssshht .... "little, yellow, different" ... pssssht... "... that not so fresh feeling?" "boy do I!!! Right now it feels like a jar of kim chi down there" ?..

And also test screen you saw at sign off The American flag, anthem and then test screen Remember sign off? Man im old i think Passed out in the recliner spilled grape juice, potato chips in my lap and Wonder what happened as night gallery ended.

Stephen Mason that would be a nice touch

It should depend on era. For example the black and white 50s one would have the “Indian head” test pattern

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Murica

Cool pfp

@@tarstarkusz Thanks for putting into words what I was too lazy to say...except to add that the 50s + 60s so-called behavior (sorry UK; 'behaviour') was more like what you would expect the original owners to leave on the curb for Large Appliance Spring Pickup Day...

I thought _Sandstorm_ was a Darude reference. (Thanks to Clint Basinger of *LGR* for inspiring that joke in The Organ Trail.)

We may have lost the thrill of giving the set a slap and tickle but, we still have the warm up period. Plus the rabbit ears are back. See, the more things change the more they remain the same.

@@Christopher-NJapanese call the picture noise / static 砂嵐 "suna arashi" which literally means "sand storm".

@@ComblessMan tis true.

Ba-dum, tishhhhhh.

Can confirm lmao

lmfao

😂

And outdated.

The people that formed those novelties depend on its stupidity.

@@shoveyourmaskupyourass959 wot

90% of them are infantile junk like Tiltok

W H A T H O W

I still have a black and white TV set. I got a digital television in 2015. I still have my black white TV set still Now use it for camping.

We too

The tv?

@@FunkSkunkOfficial yes

true

You make a very good point.

Don't you mean "slightly iversized dollhouse" ?

Yeh

Little details are everything.

@@devianb You got that "little" quite literally, eh?

Vib those tubes

May I ask you something, what’s your sky link?

And perhaps that 15KHz high voltage whine.

Put a Note 7 in there, give 'er a few slaps and you might just get that nostalgic cooking smell.

@@Angultra *but then it could blow up*

Ahhhh! .... Nothing like the smell of hot CRT in the morning!

Ah, you just reminded me of a day about 25 years ago. My older brother came home with a 1950s-vintage television that probably hadn't been plugged in for two decades. That smell you described was very potent when he turned it on.... Astonishingly, the TV actually worked, and quite well in fact. They really don't make 'em today like they used to.

Parker's NBA History that would honestly make it Perfect Nostalgia

@@irishjoe2941 perfect nostalgia would create a black hole, you must create imperfection in some way. see that percussive maintenance feature? YOU GOTTA COMPROMISE

i was gonna say that

Nothing an OTA update can't fix! Those old TVs can get OTA updates, right?

Have you been to Akihabara lately? There are still shops selling electronic components but it's mostly just phone cases and charging cables nowadays, not much that you can't find elsewhere.

KRAFTWERK2K6 App fatigue is real. I want less apps now, not more. I still remember my first phone, downloading GPS satellite apps, table level apps, magnetic field apps. Calibrating the magnetic antenna by swinging the whole device in wide arcs so the reading got more accurate. The slate form factor/single pane of glass is boring now. Showa style retro stuff is so cool.

Oh hey, I've just been there last year! In December

US Forget the beer.Panasonic was a made great, after , the Korean conflict The US, sent great engineers, and scientists- to South Korea.

I thought the four horsemen marked the end of the world, lol

Same!

@El BanditoYeah!

I like dank pods a bit

I am unironically subscribed to all four! Techmoan, The 8-Bit Guy, LGR, and Technology Connections are also four of my favorite technology channels here on RU-vid. In recent months, especially during COVID-19, I have really come to like The 8-Bit Guy because he has done several videos on the various aspects of what it is like to own an electric car.

fear of all the fan mail, have you seen how much stuff 8-bit guy gets every month!?

They only transmit over VHF.

That's why television is suffering a slow painful death. A cake of mostly repetitive, unisteresting programs sprinkled with biased news.

Because they think people would rather watch Z-listers dancing, baking, singing or shouting at one another ad nauseum. Or exploitative crap about people who are fat or on benefits, interspersed with pro-Govt, pro-austerity propaganda. I'm very into what used to be called 'current affairs' but I can't remember the last time I watched broadcast TV, and I'm 40 - despite laughable attempts to woo millennials, it's a medium for old fogeys now and (like tabloid newspapers) once they're all gone, it will be too.

What are you insane? You mean to tell me that you want new, interesting and creative content and not 28 hours of the one single show being rerun over and over again with 40% of that time being filled up with advertisements?

Yeah I have spent way too much on random toys from Japan... mostly takara tomy masterpiece transformers.

Lol

Only Nostalgia Nerd is still needed

I love all of those channels!

We still need VWestlife, tho.

My crossover involves more oil though.

Except I saw this on japanesestuffchannel first.

Same with the bottom back part of some fridges

the paper was pregnant???

BigCities MUSIC when ur impregnated with paper😍

@@madiserket2 😂 Didn't even realise

As an Australian, I was also pleasantly surprised.

I'm Aussie too 😊

Never Dream it's Over

XDXDXD same....

same

...and he'd owned it

true :D

Just shows you how the metrics and analytics of youtube and the new SEO model is working very well.

Agreed. His channel is always so informative. His VHS/VCR videos were nostalgic af.

deathscreton And the jacket looks like a stereotypical DDR TV presenter.

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The Japanese cartoon helps him portray his loathing 🤣

its made in japan not china...

Exactly what I was thinking.

Great idea

imark7777777 Yep, I have an iPad 2, and was missing out on a few things.... I broke down and got an iPad 6 last week....Target.com has the 32gb version for $245.00. Not bad,

LGR- it's got to have a woodgrain surface and run on DOS or failing that, Windows 3.1.

Technology Connections: "These....ARE pixels!"

@@namewarvergeben 8 Bit Guy- If it's not a Commodore or an Apple II, or if it doesn't have a square wave generator sound chip, he won't review it.

Read all of those in their respective voices.

@@vwestlife Omg it is actually you?! Thank you x3 I am fangirling so hard right now. Sorry if my humor is a bit out there. I mean well. >

Someone seriously needs to develop an app that can play custom files instead of RU-vid videos. Then you can freaking bet I'd have a phone dedicated to being a retro TV.

the 80's mode was the default one he started on.

Miami Spice

@@TeraunceFoaloke That was terrestrial

You can download the app to try without the TV, somehow it's in Japanese but with his video not hard to figure out. '80s TV looks normal but with the random static, 50s and 60s is damn near unwatchable lol.

but there not over i fixed a $900.000 cnc mill by kicking it (was a mazak INTEGREX e-670H if anyone was wondering)

I had a Panasonic widescreen 1080p HD crt bought new in 2005, around 2010 the coaxial tv input started "sandstorming" and I'd have to whack it on the side like the good old days to straighten the picture out. It only did this with the coaxial input, thought. HDMI, Component and Composite never gave me trouble. I ran the unit until 2014

i'm actually slap the side of my laptop screen when it starts to look like spectrum's loading screen

"If in doubt, give it a clout."

@@chrisa2735-h3z When I was a young boy there was still DIY repair, where you could pull the tubes, take them to the local hardware store, test them, buy replacements and install them yourself! Of course we only got 5 channels, in black and white...

Mind my pint!

Attend to my spirits

You mean "Hold my tea"

"thy shall holdeth my cup o tea"

@@Kuraio Hold me brew!

I am sure he knows. Takara made the Transformers toys.

Brilliant!!-- Great response and reference to TM's previous video this week (A Few Ways to Not Really Clean a Record--March 6, 2019)!! This whole issue of cleaning vinyl records with wood glue or other gooey stuff is seriously trending right now.

a true fan knows this reference ;)

I went back there to peek through the little holes in the cardboard/wood/whatever it was and get a look at the glowing tubes inside. It was like magic going on.

Mod MINI I ended up having it open with a multimeter on the input of the HV transformer to debug a heat sensitive bad connection near one of the power transistors. That was the 1980s model.

My antenna input Jack needed a good jiggling every now and then to get the picture back in focus, it was set away from the wall just for that reason.

And the dot burned forever on the screen...

I remember watching so close I could feel the static on my face and eye's. I'm shocked I don't need glasses now. We had the wood version, that sat on the floor with the cardboard back. In our kitchen with a n64 hooked to it.

Tiny sock muppets.

Hiya! I have a few of the Sharp QT-27 'boxes. They are also....... .......Differently coloured too! :D Do you want to see them? Here's how: (1) Head on over to my channel. (2) BAAAANG the subscribe button (3) Dive into the BoomBoxes Playlist (4) Play one or more boombox vids (5) Slap it on widescreen (6) Pull out your favourite snack, (7) Sit back (8) Enjoy!!! :D -Wayne's Electrical. _8th March 2019, 22.25_

And in the case too! Part of me not wanting play with my iPhone X is the refusal I have to pulling it from its case...Cool to see you don’t always have to.

It's just going to get worse since the iPhone XIII will probably be the size of an iPad Mini. Need more screen space; need more cowbell !!!

I agree!

Or American Girl dolls for that matter. As a matter of fact there was a similar television-style case made for the Maryellen character that required an iPad and a companion app for it to be functional.

Craig Beas I was hoping for those tiny actual cassettes shown in an earlier video. For the record player I expected the mechanism of 1980s toy players that used an actual sound groove at LoFi quality.

I think I missed how/where the tape actually does record... any idea?

@@DuncWilson I think it records to a chip inside the machine

@Kevin Patz Ahh, that could be it. Well spotted.

It probably is easier and cheap enough for them just to add a small electret mic, as the speaker sensitivity wouldn't be great.